SHOW BITS: Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson swap tips

Sunday, January 12, 2014

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Show Bits brings you Sunday's 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.

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STREEP, THOMPSON EXCHANGE ACTING TIPS

Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson each could give a master class in acting.

But as the pair chatted and held hands during a break in the Golden Globes show, Thompson had a different tip to offer.

"Slim," she told Streep, striking a pose and pretending to pull her already flat tummy in.

Streep let out a knowing laugh.

— Lynn Elber — www.twitter.com/lynnelber

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WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Most of the guests you see on TV at the Golden Globes are hungry — and not just for awards.

Never mind the food sacrifices made for fashion and those body-hugging dresses. Although the Globes is ostensibly a dinner party, the waiters remove all the meals before the curtain rises. Get there fashionably late and you don't eat.

Platters of sandwiches and cold cuts are served in an adjacent room off camera.

By the first commercial break, only crumbs remained.

— Sandy Cohen — Twitter: www.twitter.com/APSandy.

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CELEBRITY BROMANCE

Jonah Hill and Bradley Cooper shared a brotherly hug and a mutual "I love you" during the first commercial break at the Golden Globes show.

Then Cooper introduced Hill to his Golden Globes date for the evening, his mother, Gloria.

— Sandy Cohen — Twitter: www.twitter.com/APSandy.

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TRAFFIC JAM

With just minutes left to get inside the Beverly Hilton Hotel's International Ballroom for the Golden Globe Awards, there was nearly a chain-reaction celebrity pileup at the front door.

Kevin Spacey did some fancy footwork to avoid running into Matthew McConaughey. Then he slapped his fellow actor on the shoulder of McConaughey's green velvet tux and said, "What a year you're having, buddy."

McConaughey, nominated for a best actor award for "Dallas Buyers Club," grinned.